ADC podcast

Have you ever wanted to get your Archimedes answer to a clinical question into our journal and onto this podcast? Did you worry that because it was about a strange device for making balloons blow up by using your nose that we’d laugh it out of the park? Well - you need not have worried - but it’s already been done (see https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/923.1). Same with uncertainties about single-dose old-fashioned UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvul transferase disruptors (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/925). I’ll leave this as a tease for you to have to listen to find out which antibiotic is being explored here. We cover some thoughts on using older or re-focussed therapies too (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/923.2).

SO - don’t hold back from your clinical question dream - crack on and submit, following our instructions to authors after you’ve spotted a great question even if it has an old (but interesting) answer.

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/i

This podcast is a roundtable discussion of recent papers on Laryngeal mask use in neonates. ADC Editor Jonathan Davis (NICU Perth Children's Hospital) interviews Charles Rohr (Southmead Hopsital, Bristol, England; Newborn Services, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK), Calum Roberts (Monash Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), and Joyce O'shea (Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, Scotland)

Related articles from ADC Fetal and Neonatal edition:

https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/21/archdischild-2020-319398

https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/342

https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/336

Other papers mentioned in this podcast:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2005333

https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=380574&isReview=true

The deliciousness of a fresh home-grown strawberry is tricky to top, isn’t it? And the sense of disappointment when you realise a slug has felt the same way about it? This glimpse into my gastronomic preferences also relates to a critical appraisal note from this month (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/821.2)

It’s shockingly relevant to one of the articles too - a belief changer perhaps - about ultrasound screening in Beckwith-Weiderman syndrome (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/824). The other might make you wish hard for tomorrow when the sun is shining over your resuscitation dolly [HT to all the musical theatre kids there] and how often we need to learn how to bounce up and down and sing about elephants (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/821.1).

You too can have months of hard work summarised in a few minutes by someone with a sketchy understanding if you submit an Archimedes by following our instructions to authors after you’ve spotted a great question that needs an answer.

It’s the height of summer in the UK and, of course, this makes our thoughts turn to concussion, slipped upper femoral epiphyses and proxy outcomes. (Well, to be honest, I’m not sure it really does... but if you do play out more maybe concussion is more likely and certainly some orthopaedic things are?)

SUFE is something we do occasionally see and want to prevent really long term consequences. If one side has slipped though, should the surgical team go in and pin the other in place? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/715.1)

And of course one of the issues with this sort of thing is that the outcomes we really want to see many be many, many years away. Can we use an ‘early warning’, surrogate or proxy for that outcome? And do you know what that even means? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/715.2)

If people, rather than UFEs, slip, then banging heads and getting concussions are not uncommon. Rugby league has introduced a system of head injury assessment to improve the safety of players after such events. But should those young contenders in Academy sides, like other teens, stay away from media screens to reduce the chance of problems after? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/720)

All these questions are addressed, if not answered, this month. And you can throw your own Q&A into the ring too - submit an Archimedes by following our instructions and have fun (in the sun, but with a hat and lots of sunscreen on).

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC, Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/i

Have you been faced with a vomiting child in the ED and wanted to make it stop? (Not the ED shift .. well maybe .. but vomiting?) This is the month for you.

Our first question asks if we can give dex not pred for asthma attacks (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/5/509), which is a bit easier as a single shot, and bit less puke-making, but is it as good against asthma? The second asks if we can safely give ondansetron to kids who have bumped their heads (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/5/507.1) without masking significant problems … well … we’ll leave you to read or listen to find the answer to that.

Something else that frequently makes folks feel sick is searching multiple electronic databases, so we’ve a few tips to avoid that sensation too. Non-pharmacological this time (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/5/507.2).

Can this be the month when the plethora of ED stuff makes you want to submit an Archimedes about something too? From a hidden corner, where adoption, hepatology, neonates or renal medicine reigns? Do it. Follow our instructions and have fun.

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May issue.

Read the Fantoms here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/229

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-…ast/id333278832

Other related papers mentioned in the podcast:

https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/336

https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=380574&isReview=true

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/6/i